"Class war" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... owner, in full accord with McIver, attempted to force John into line. But the younger man refused to enlist in any class war against his loyal ...
— Helen of the Old House • Harold Bell Wright
... not fortunate in their results, since the peasants failed to understand them. A class war followed, in which Luther took the part of mediator, {60} trying to show his poorer neighbours the evils their violence would bring on themselves, and reproaching the nobles with their oppressive customs. He was angry that the new religious spirit should be discredited by social disorder, and ...
— Heroes of Modern Europe • Alice Birkhead
... classes. There is something pathetic in the blindness of powerful people when they face a social crisis. Fighting viciously every readjustment which a nation demands, they make their own overthrow inevitable. It is they who turn opposing interests into a class war. Confronted with the deep insurgency of labor what do capitalists and their spokesmen do? They resist every demand, submit only after a struggle, and prepare a condition of war to the death. When far-sighted men appear in the ruling classes—men who ...
— A Preface to Politics • Walter Lippmann
... nothing, is exploited by the capitalists, who possess everything. As the capitalist system works itself out and its nature becomes more clear, the opposition of bourgeoisie and proletariat becomes more and more marked. The two classes, since they have antagonistic interests, are forced into a class war which generates within the capitalist regime internal forces of disruption. The working men learn gradually to combine against their exploiters, first locally, then nationally, and at last internationally. When they have learned to combine ...
— Proposed Roads To Freedom • Bertrand Russell |
